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Usability Walkthrough

A Team Usability Walkthrough is a scenario-based experience of the product from the customers' perspectives.

Team members role-play stereotypical customers while others record usability issues and potential solutions.

This process can be applied in early design stages, with prototypes, competitive products, and final products.

Walkthrough

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Key benefits

  • Direct experience for the team from the customer perspective
  • Rapid and efficient
  • Uncovers significant usability issues and design gaps
  • Yields a prioritized list of issues and actions that is generated by the team
  • Can be easily repeated
  • Can be used as a basis for and compared to future usability tests
How it works
  • Develop a set of customer profiles
  • Determine the critical set of tasks
  • Create scenarios
  • Discuss process, roles, usability heuristics, and guidelines with the team
  • Walk through the tasks with team members rotating through the roles
  • Record and prioritize the issues


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